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Seasonal dynamics in carbon dioxide fluxes of the herbaceous layer of a moist Kenyan savannah

Abstract/Overview Strong seasonal variability in African carbon source/sink relationship is considered the continent’s mo

Effects of land use practices on soil organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in river Nzoia drainage basin, Kenya

Abstract/Overview Land use activities along River Nzoia Drainage Basin, Kenya, include cultivation along the river banks,

Socioeconomic factors influencing dependence of households on non-timber forest products in South Nandi Forest, Kenya

Abstract/Overview Forests are some of the key natural assets that provide a wide range of goods and services to forest ad

Finite difference solution of (2+1)-dimensional sine-gordon equation: A model for investigating the effects of varying surface damping parameter on josephson current flowing through the long

Abstract/Overview Modeling of some physical phenomena and technological processes taking into account dissipation leads t

Finite element approach to the solution of fourth order beam equation

Abstract/Overview Finite element method is a class of mathematical tool which approximates solutions to initial and bound

Finite difference solution of (1+1) sinegordon equation: A mathematical model for the rigid pendula attached to a stretched wire

Abstract/Overview The nonlinear (1+1) Sine-Gordon equation that governs the vibrations of the rigid pendula attached to a

New synthetic pathways for thiocarbohydrazide and salicylaldehyde azine compounds

Abstract/Overview Thiocarbohydrazide synthesis is an important intermediate step for many hydrazine organic synthetic rea

Morphometric study of Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H. S. Irwin and Barneby in Kenya

Abstract/Overview Herbal medicine has been used for many years and it remains widespread in developing countries while th

Forensic estimation of time of death: A mathematical model

Abstract/Overview In this paper we establish the exact time of death of a murdered person. This leads to an ordinary diff

Effect of climatic variability on malaria trends in Baringo County, Kenya

Abstract/Overview Malaria transmission in arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya such as Baringo County, is seasonal and oft

On local minimum and orthogonality of normal derivations in Cp-classes

Abstract/Overview The present paper gives some results on local minimum and orthogonality of normal derivations in Cp-Cla

2-butanone as a carbon dioxide mimic in attractant blends for the Afrotroical malaria mosquitoes anopheles gambie and anopheles funestus

Abstract/Overview Most odour baits designed to attract host-seeking mosquitoes contain carbon dioxide (CO2), which enhanc

On numerical ranges of convexoid operators

Abstract/Overview Numerical range is useful in studying operators on Hilbert spaces. In particular, the geometrical prope

Implication of pollen character coding and their diagnostic value in the determination of taxonomic resemblance among indigofera linn species

Abstract/Overview Whereas phenetics emphasizes the use of maximum characters as practicable, decisions on how observation

Construction of nominal yield curve for Nairobi securities exchange: an improvement on monotone preserving r(t)t interpolation method

Abstract/Overview There is no agreed-upon method used to construct yield curves at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The e

The inter-play of the opto-electrical properties of cuprite and tenorite semiconductors for solar cell application

Abstract/Overview The electrical and optical properties of cuprous oxide (Cu2O) thin films prepared by D.C. reactive magn

QTL mapping of fiber quality and yield-related traits in an intra-specific upland cotton using genotype by sequencing (gbs)

Abstract/Overview Fiber quality and yield improvement are crucial for cotton domestication and breeding. With the transfo

Bioactive carbazole alkaloids from Alysicarpus ovalifolius (Schumach)

Abstract/Overview Phytochemical and biological evaluation of the stem bark of Alysicarpus ovalifolius led to the isolatio

Incremental modernization of statistics teaching and curriculum at Maseno University, Kenya

Abstract/Overview Modernisation of statistics teaching is a continual problem the world over. The advances in statistical

Generalizations on normal self-ad joint operators

Abstract/Overview We consider certain properties of operators. A lot of studies have been done on reflexivity, compactnes

Operators with slowly growing resolvents towards the spectrum

Abstract/Overview A closed densely defined operator H, on a Banach space X, whose spectrum is contained in R and satisfies

Malaria vector species distribution and seasonal population dynamics across varied ecological zones in Baringo County, Kenya

Abstract/Overview Vector populations fluctuate on a seasonal basis annually. Knowledge on seasonal abundance and distribu

In vitro antimicrobial activity of methanolic extracts of different Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby plant parts

Abstract/Overview Background: Herbal medicines are used widely for primary health care in Kenya among rural populations w

Numerical solution of dynamic vibration equations

Abstract/Overview In this paper, we examine conservative autonomous dynamic vibration equation, , which is time vibration

The similarities in properties of essential numerical range and Davis-Wielandt shell of Hilbert space operators

Abstract/Overview Let be an operator on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space . Denote the essential numerical range of t

Symmetry group approach to the solution of generalized burgers equation: Ut + UUx = λUxx

Abstract/Overview Symmetry of a system of differential equations is a transformation that maps any solution to another so

Analytic solution of a nonlinear black-scholes partial differential equation

Abstract/Overview We study a nonlinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation whose nonlinearity is as a result of a

On the structures of quotient groups

Abstract/Overview Let J be the Jacobson radical of a commutative completely primary finite ring R such that J k 6= (0) an

Modeling co-infection of paediatric Malaria and Pneumonia

Abstract/Overview Malaria and persistent childhood diseases are a major threat to child survival in the developing world.

Morphological, genetic and symbiotic characterization of root nodule bacteria isolated from Bambara groundnuts (Vigna subterraneaL. Verdc) from soils of Lake Victoria basin, western Kenya.

Abstract/Overview Low soil nitrogen (N) is a major constraint for sustainable crop production in smallholder farming syst